S.A. truck driver killed in Laredo wreck

Updated 8:18 am, Friday, March 8, 2013

A San Antonio truck driver was killed after a highway crash in Laredo this week.

Michael Anthony Gomez, 27, had been traveling north in a tractor along U.S. 59 near Mile Marker 806 about 5:40 a.m. on Monday when he suddenly veered into the highway's southbound lanes, crashing with an oncoming Ford F-350 pickup.

Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Eliseo Ceja said investigators don't yet know why Gomez went traveling toward oncoming traffic. It was not known on Thursday whether alcohol was a factor in the crash.

A passenger in the pickup and four people traveling in the pickup were rushed to hospitals in Laredo and San Antonio with injuries not considered life threatening.